Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-11-12
TENNESSEE NEWS.


daughter of Hon. J. w. Deadrick
late Chief Justice of Tennessee was
burned to death at Joinesboro last
Saturday. Her clothing took fire
from burning leaves on aer fathers
lot.
AT Big Poor Valley Hawkins
county last Friday a ten year old
daughter of Mrs. VIM. Alves was
burned to death by her clothing igni-
ti..g at a CRATE. The mother was
fatally burned during her efforts to
save her child.
The grand jury of Shelby county
found twenty-eight true bills against
Patrick III. Kallaher the wharf mas
ter Of Memphis charging him W tn
embezling $50, 900 of the city's mon
ey collected as wharfage at that port.
Kallaher has held the position for
eleven years.
The steam cotton gin and planning
mills of Messrs White Brothers, at
Jackson, burned last Friday, togeth-
er With considerable cotton and lum-
Der.
Mr.. Honor Prince of Nashville
has assumed editorial charge of the
Hopkinsville New Era.
The Supreme court has reversed
the decision Of Chancellor Key in the
case of the Police Commission against
the city OF Chattanooga. The con-
test was to gain control of the city
Jail, the station-house and the chain
gang. The decision of the court
gives the Police Commission entire
control of all these. The City Coun-
Gil is Republican and has used all
these offices to repay the colored
ofiice-seekers for their support in city
politics. Their terms expire next
week and the Democrat Police Com
mission is expected to turn them out
and fill their places with office-seek-
ers in political harmony with them.
The decision has aroused the utmost
dissatisfaction among the negroes
there.
A clever gentleman, Mr.. Sam
Thomas, of Benton county, was ar
rested and taken to the Jackson fed
eral court for holding a funnel for
another man to pour whisky into a
bottle.
Joe Thomson was shot and killed
by some unknown person last Sun
! day while riding along the road a
mile or two from Mckenzie.
A correspondent Of the West Ten
nessee Leader gives a circumstantial
account of u rattlesnake twenty-five
feet long that has its den in pile of
rocks near the waters Of the Obion
river Some newspaper scribbers
drink fearful whisky
Mr.. s. r. Montgomery has been
elected manager of the Memphis
Cotton Compress Company to succeed
the late Col. III. A. Montgomery, his
father.
John K. Alexander late of Flick
} man county in what is known as the
Blackwell settlement, shot Jackson
! Blackwell and his son fatally, and
then turned his Winchester upon
himself, committing suicide. Dur
|, ing Alexander's murderous work, ht
t shot and killed mule belonging tx
Blackwell. An old grudge was thu
cause.
t Miss Mamie Hall Of Crockett coun
ty was a victim to the lust of DI
: A. j. Alexander an electric specials
at Mayiield, KY, recently. She say
of the occurrence, that she had pu
herself under DIR. Alexander's treat
!. ment for a chronic female trouble
l. and on Sunday he told her to come t
his Office for examination. She wen
I; as directed. He made improper ad
vances, and even went so far as t
compel her to lie down upon bee
r. She struggled and freed herself fror
his embrace and secured a pistol ly
= ing on table, but he wrenched TIL
lie from her and then she tainted. Will
:" she was unconscious he accomplishe
. the outrage upon her, satisfying h
~ brutal desires to the fullest extern
Alexander is under arrest for the hol
IL rible crime.
=" A single bottle of Ayers's Sarsap;
rilla will establish the merits of tn
es medicine as blood purifier. Man
d, thousands of people are yearly cure